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Words that do Handstands

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324 points hardmath123 | 8 comments | 28 Aug 19 14:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source | bottom
1. kjhughes ◴[28 Aug 19 16:06 UTC] No.20821086[source]▶
I've always admired Sun Microsystem's ambigram logo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/SUN_micr...

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2. koliber ◴[28 Aug 19 16:09 UTC] No.20821111[source]▶
I'm a fan of SONOS's logo: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Px2Steg_XRM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
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3. gumby ◴[28 Aug 19 16:54 UTC] No.20821572[source]▶
Designed by Vaughn Pratt!
4. kibwen ◴[28 Aug 19 17:36 UTC] No.20822056[source]▶
It seems almost like cheating to make an ambigram out of a palindrome composed exclusively of rotationally-symmetric characters. :P
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5. garaetjjte ◴[28 Aug 19 19:03 UTC] No.20822906[source]▶
They used to have background which causes interesting effect when scrolling: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/23/7876777/sonos-sound-wave-...
6. ben174 ◴[28 Aug 19 21:13 UTC] No.20824027[source]▶
The Play 5 has the logo rotated 90 degrees vertically so it looks extra cool.
7. ◴[28 Aug 19 21:29 UTC] No.20824167[source]▶
8. bromuro ◴[29 Aug 19 03:46 UTC] No.20826496{3}[source]▶
Still, they’ve found it. A lucky coincidence isn’t it.